Merged into https://firstdraftnews.org. Was a directory of tools for verifying, fact checking and assessing the validity of eyewitness reports and user generated content online. Managed by Josh Stearns.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Access to the national budget is every citizen's right.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Open data publishing portals

Organised by PUBLIC and supported by French President Emmanuel Macron, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and the European Commission, the GovTech Summit gathers European leaders and innovators to explore how new technologies can improve public services and democratic practices.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Gathering leaders in journalism, technology and philanthropy to explore the ways to strengthen local news and our democracy.

• Media
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

A knowledge base website that collects public health information on the novel coronavirus from WHO, CDC, NYS, and NYC.

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

Use the LOVELAND Next App to survey properties or look up property information while you're on the go!

• apps
• land

• Urban planning

Cofacts is a collaborative system connecting instant messages and fact-check reports or different opinions together.

• LINE

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Tracking French Presidents' promises.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Notifica allows users to inform family members, legal advocates, and other contacts that they have been detained by the police or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

• immigration

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

This ICT4D Guide is a free and open guide to help anyone who wants to make a positive social impact with technology's help.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

"Verification Swiss Army knife", including lookups of video clips to find them in context elsewhere

• extensions

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Outside.in is an aggregator aimed at creating a place for neighborhoods to share and explore information.

• The Tech
• Media
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

See what's happening in Right Wing media from the safety of your inbox.

• newsletters

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Tracking legislation and votes in the United States Congress.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

• research

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

We propose an effort to develop a “Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools”. This will be delivered by an informal group of like-minded organizations coming together around a common purpose.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Citizen science

First Draft began in 2015 as a small nonprofit coalition that grew out of a need to understand, debunk, and provide guidance on the misinformation we all were seeing on the social web. It will live on as the Information Futures Lab.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Urban Data Pioneers is a program that empowers teams of city employees and community members to work in teams to deeply understand questions through data analysis.

• The People
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

As a healthcare provider, lab, or other business, follow these steps to submit information on COVID-19 testing locations that Apple may display to its users.

• civic features
• Apple

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

This lab anticipates, assists with, and responds to various legal issues unique to internet freedom projects.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Tracking Donald Trump's Campaign Promises. It is a project by the fact-checking organization Politifact.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Listening Post Collective provides journalists, newsroom leaders, and non-profits tools and advice to create meaningful conversations with their communities.

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

We develop data standards and open platforms that make it easy to share and find information about community resources.

• Data schemas and standards
• Access social benefits

Trialling the involvement of citizens in decision-making at local government level through innovative models of deliberative democracy.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

TraceMap is an open source web tool that allows you to visualize the spread of a Tweet, analyze its trustworthiness and to engage with others in fighting misinformation.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Giving everyone a voice in our democracy

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

DECODE es un proyecto europeo que pretende dar respuesta a la preocupación de las personas sobre la pérdida de control de su información personal en Internet.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Communicate your stance on issues you care about directly to your congressperson

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Froide is a Freedom Of Information Portal using Django 3.2 on Python 3.8+. It is used by the German and the Austrian FOI site, but it is fully internationalized and written in English.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

With Datasketch Apps you can create data visualizations in seconds and empower users to analyze data faster with access to open information repositories curated by journalists and researchers.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Using deliberative democracy models to inform city decision making and to connect organizations and districts around NYC’s

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Somos una herramienta de información que busca que los ciudadanos tengan una visión clara y completa de la gestión de los funcionarios públicos en Colombia.

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy
• Foundational layers

Free, practical resources for election officials

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Selected organisations receive over the period of six to eight months* constructive assistance to create a secure environment for their employees and thereby the CSAs and HRDs they work with.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

The International Fact-Checking Network is a unit of the Poynter Institute dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

A project that collected timetable data on informal transit options and formatted it for civic data standards

• mass transit
• mobility

• The People
• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech

The MARC formats are standards for the representationand communication of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Format for exchanging static public transit information.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

The News Provenance Project seeks to diminish the spread of misinformation by empowering readers to make more informed, confident judgments about the news they see online.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Human Agency is a platform that democratizes the tools of advertising

• The People
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Advertising

#CredCon is an ongoing two-day hackathon that considers the impact of technology on news and information sources online and explores themes such as trust, reliability, accuracy and credibility.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Caminos de la Villa es una plataforma de acción ciudadana que permite acceder de manera sencilla a la información vinculada con los procesos de urbanización en las villas de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires y ver de qué manera se están llevando adelante. ¡Sumate!

• project tracking

• Engagement tech
• Data visualization
• Communicating with the government

“Marsad Majles” is Al Bawsala's project to monitor Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly (NCA).

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

MEGAPHONE is a community of activists working on issues such as the environment, women's rights, LGBTQ right, transparency and accountability and civic engagement

• LGBTQI
• women

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

OPEN DATA TODAY TO BUILD RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES TOMORROW

• The People
• Civic data
• Meet the others

L'application mobile à destination des mairies et des collectivités locales pour signaler les problèmes rencontrés dans votre ville, dans votre rue. Géolocalisation et catégorisation pour envoi directement au bon service technique municipal.

• apps

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

Our mission is to monitor changes to government websites, holding our government accountable by revealing shifts in public information and access to Web resources, as well as changes in stated policies and priorities.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

Our mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. We do this through research, policy outreach, and training.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Build something

g0v is a decentralized civic tech community from Taiwan, advocating transparency of information, building tech solutions for citizens to participate in public affairs from grass-roots. g0v’s biennial summits started in 2014, featuring open government, open source collaboration and civic participation.

• Conferences
• In-person meetings